EDITORIAL
Two million one hundred thousand people from all over the world visited the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz and Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 2017. It’s over 50 thousand more than in 2016, when for the first time the attendance at the Memorial was over 2 million visitors.
People who visit Memorials and museums, take part in educational projects, visit exhibitions, read books and dedicate their time to learn about the tragic history of World War 2 and draw conclusions from it—they give the meaning to our work of preserving Memory.
In January edition of "Memoria" we show its different dimensions: a book by Roger Moorhouse that presents the history of the Third Reich through a hundred objects, exhibition of moving drawings by Joseph Richter in the State Museum at Majdanek, virtual #WeRemember project created by the World Jewish Congress as well as a play by a young British writer Nathalie Bazan. I recommend reading these as well as many other articles.
I also encourage all our readers to cooperate with us. We would be grateful to receive information about events, projects, publications, exhibitions, conferences or research that we could write about. We also accept proposals for articles. Please do share information about this magazine with others, particularly via social media.
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Paweł Sawicki, Editor-in-Chief